Elissa Favero

Elissa Favero teaches visual arts histories at Cornish College of the Arts at Seattle University. Her writing often centers visual art and natural and built places, and her art criticism, book reviews, and essays have appeared in Temporary Art Review, The Rumpus, Terrain.org, River Teeth Journal’s Beautiful Things series, and Ecotone. Elissa is the winner of the 2023 Newfound Prose Prize, and her chapbook Children of Rivers and Trees: An Abecedarian was published by Newfound in 2024. She is a 2024 graduate of the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA program, where she focused on creative nonfiction and ekphrastic writing, and is currently at work on a full-length collection of essays.

Elissa began her career in museums and has worked in the education and public programs departments of the Seattle Art Museum and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. At Cornish College of the Arts at Seattle University, she teaches an introduction to visual arts histories course as well as classes about gender & sexuality and propaganda & protest in art history.